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I not getting enough tomatoes to can. I've been making salsa but it disappears as fast as I can make it. I want to can some tomatoes with garlic and onion in it for soups and chili. I found one guy I guy tomatoes for $1 lb but that adds up to not many tomatoes.' I would apreciate any...

Is it too late to plant pumpkins in Zone 7 Arkansas? I am really wanting to plant them for my chickens. jackie

They are not in my garden but under anything laying on top of dirt and invading the outside of my house. They are slipping through the cracks. hundreds and hundreds of them. A horror movie could be made out of the amount of these things. I have cedar siding but my neighbors little house is...

I didn't know if any of you knew that egg shells are wonderful fertilizer. I put some in the hole before I planted my tomatoes and they have grown and are so pretty. A 90 year old man told me about this and he use to grow 3 lb tomatoes. So far it's working great! I just thought I would pass...

I have planted potatoes in 15 tires back in the middle of March. I have some that are 5 tires high. All the rain we've gotten I didn't get to add dirt like I wanted to but I did add hay. So I don't now how they are going to do but I have beautiful vines. I also planted some on the grown and...

I have 15 tires with potatoes planted. Some are coming up but they are coming up as leaves about 3 and the plant is maybe a half inch high. I've read about a 3 leaf limit? Do I go ahead and over them more? They are not planted very deep at all. I've covered them with hay and some pine...

I have 12 tires planted so far and I still need a few more tires which tonight my neighbors called and had a few more tires. I've been reading a lot tonight where some people didn't have a lot of luck with the tires and some people had great luck. So I'm hoping for the best. I guess it...

I'm sure you pro's know this but I was watching the Plant Green channel last night it was talking about how dryer lint was great for compost pile because worms love it! So, I thought I would pass that along. jackie

About a month ago I planted tomato seeds in 20 oz styrofoam cups and cut holes in the sides and watered good. I put them in the window with a sandwich bag over them. They've come up and getting taller but seems a little spindley in other words skinny. A few have died but most of them are...

The redbud trees in our front yard are about 20 years old. They are not as pretty in the spring as they use to be several years ago. The limbs are very long and hang low. During the summer we will have to trim the limbs. I was wondering if after they bloom this year if we cut them way back...

Do you plant sweet potatoes like regular potatoes? Can I do the container planting like regular potatoes? Like plant the seed potatoe and when the green start showing adding dirt. My dad told me I should plant them along the fence line so the vine could run on the fence. I know people around...

I read in an Backwood Magizine article where you can plant potatoes in a tire by placing dirt on the bottom of one tire and plant your potatoes and when you see a couple inches of green you can put more dirt to almost cover the greenery and add another tire and so on. Ok my question I have a...

That's a strange remark to come from me who grew up on nothing but veggies that came out of the garden. My parents grew a huge garden and grew potatoes twice a year. My husband asked last week when do you plant potatoes I quickly answered March 17!! I grew up hearing a bunch of arguments and...

My daughter is doing a science project. Which fertilizer works best goat, rabbit, chicken, horse, cow, commercial or none. We are trying to grow corn. So far horse is winning with the worst tie at chicken and commercial. It's interesting. jackie

Can I throw orange peel in my compost pile? jackie